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Celerity

(52,381 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 11:55 AM Sep 30

Trump Declares War on American Cities in Room Full of Military Leaders



Minutes after Pete Hegseth promised to untie the hands of the military and unleash violence, Donald Trump named the cities he’d go to war with next.

https://newrepublic.com/post/201106/trump-war-american-cities-military-meeting

https://archive.ph/OILWs



Trump told senior generals and admirals they will be going to “war” on U.S. soil. In his address Tuesday before a rare gathering of hundreds of military leaders, who were summoned from around the world to Virginia, the president lamented “what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles”—cities where he’s threatened to send troops based on the baseless notion that Democratic officials have allowed crime to run rampant there.

Priming the top brass to conceive of forthcoming military operations in those cities as a “war,” Trump continued, “They’re very unsafe places, and we’re going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within.”

Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T14:43:41.317Z


Trump later added that he’s told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military—National Guard, but military. Because we’re going into Chicago very soon.” The declaration came just after Hegseth—whose department Trump is seeking to rebrand as the “Department of War”—told the group, “War is something you do sparingly, on our own terms, and with clear aims. We fight to win. We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy.

“We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement,” Hegseth added, referring to rules that govern when, how, and to what degree members of the military are permitted to use force against foreign combatants. “We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.”

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intrepidity

(8,497 posts)
1. Wait'll they learn who the real enemies from within are
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
Sep 30

and this newly unleashed military goes after them.

dalton99a

(90,593 posts)
2. Trump wants U.S. military to murder Americans and destroy American cities with tanks and fighter jets
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:02 PM
Sep 30

Ping Tung

(3,823 posts)
4. They're telling the troops it's desirable that they arrest, imprison, toruture and kill Americas.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:07 PM
Sep 30

Will they do it? Sadly, I'm recalling Kent State and My Lai.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte

rubbersole

(10,683 posts)
6. Today has to be the tipping point.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:09 PM
Sep 30

The 25th Amendment was written for this reason. Between the AI racist vulgar video tsf posted last night and the unconstitutional speech he just gave...what else does any patriot need to see?

rubbersole

(10,683 posts)
11. Agree. tsf isn't the snake, he's the rattle.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:59 PM
Sep 30

There has to be a 'revolt' amongst the oligarchs that are running this shitshow. It would start with Murdoch. With putin's blessing.

Wednesdays

(20,939 posts)
12. Yeah, they'd do a "Weekend at Bernie's" before they'd remove him.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:04 PM
Sep 30

Even if he were still alive.

underpants

(193,398 posts)
7. No uniforms huh? But these are cities so maybe there's a way to ID these "enemies "
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:23 PM
Sep 30

MAGA knows exactly what he’s talking about

NCDem47

(3,121 posts)
8. There is simply NO WAY the MSM can sane wash what's happened in the last 24 hours.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:24 PM
Sep 30

But...they'll try!

And where are all those "Don't traed on me" types now? You know, the ones who thought Obama and Biden were going to snatch them out of their homes in the middle of the night?

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